God, help me to pay attention to who you say I am. Help me to stop believing the lies and accusations as you exchange them for your truth. Help me to be aware of what you’re doing in my life and what the enemy is doing in my life. Help me to hear from you, the true Lord God. Then, Lord, would you help me to develop action steps in the direction of

I asked Jerry, “How does it make you feel to know that you will be a counselor to families?” “It makes me feel kind of good but look at my life,” Jerry sadly replied. Wrong answer. “How does it make you feel to know that you will be a family counselor?” Jerry said, “It will be the most redemptive thing I could ever do or imagine.” Right answer!

“Lord, which way are we going? Where are you on this path? Lord, how do we go? What do you want me to know? What do you want me to do?”

You haven’t missed anything yet in your life, not one thing. God says to ask him and he’ll give you the years the locusts have eaten away.11 Ask God for the years back.

Here is the sad news. You do have the ability to let fear, guilt, and shame stop you from moving forward. Like the fearful Israelites, you can say no to God’s kairos moments for you. Don’t make that mistake.

Time is merely a measurement of the movement of objects in space.

Watch Jesus with the disciples. Like the disciples, you will stumble and you will fall and Jesus will pick you back up and you will keep going with him. The only danger is if you quit.

Here is our simple question to God right now: “God, what do you want me to know and what do you want me to do based on my identity?” After you do what you sense from him, you just keep asking, “And now what? What do you want me to do now?”

Fear is an interesting thing. It is said that a crisis doesn’t make a person; a crisis reveals a person. People who struggle with PTSD often aren’t struggling only because of something that happened to them on the battlefield; they are struggling with something that was already present within them that the battlefield exposed. It’s already present